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You’re an unfunded early-stage startup and your sole venture backer sends you a check for millions of dollars. Unfortunately, it’s made out to the wrong company name, so you can’t deposit it. What do you do? You change your name, of course. That’s how Primary Networks became Acme Packet. The Burlington, MA, maker of Internet switching equipment and Read more

Vistaprint Ltd. has received two doses of bad news this week: a negative analyst report that says a U.S. Senate investigation could threaten nearly half the company’s net income, and a lawsuit claiming the online custom printing service firm copied its printing process from a New Jersey-based competitor. New Jersey-based ColorQuick LLC has filed a Read more

EMC Corp., the maker of disk storage and information management software, reported a 43 percent year-over-year drop in net income and an 11 percent drop in revenue for the second quarter, but company officials said they expect to generate double-digit revenue growth once IT budgets return to normal. Hopkinton, Mass.-based EMC (NYSE: EMC) reported second quarter Read more

Marlborough-based Skyscape Inc. has been acquired by Physicians Interactive LLC of Illinois, a competitor in the delivery of medical information via mobile devices.
No details of the purchase were released. Officials did say, however, that Skyscape is now a wholly owned subsidiary of PI, and the new parent will locate its corporate offices in Marlborough. Buying Read more

The economic climate these days reminds me of the famous line about the weather at the “Crosby Clambake” golf tournament (now the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am) held each February on California’s Monterey peninsula, in unpredictable conditions that shift quickly from sun to cold and rain: “There’s plenty of it.” So it seemed a good time to get out Read more

Technology entrepreneurship can be a lonely road. Not only do you have to convince a few friends or colleagues to work hundred-hour weeks for the next several years in support of your wild idea, but you’ve got to make it past the elevator pitch with at least one funder, and then prove that your idea can gain a toehold in the marketplace. But in the Read more

As the federal government turns its eye to nationwide health-care reform, HealthEdge Software Inc. feels itself on the brink of a big opportunity. The Burlington-based company makes software designed to allow health insurance companies to nimbly tailor policies and procedures based on an individual’s changing health-care needs. The Read more

Are you smarter than Paris Hilton? If you could know the exact time, date, and location of your death, would you want to know? Which Harry Potter character are you? If you could only have one home gaming system for the rest of your life, which one would you pick? It wouldn’t be hard to spend your whole day responding to online polls focused on Read more

Being neither heterosexual nor much of a sports fan, I’ve never quite understood the annual excitement generated by the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue. But lots of folks out there will no doubt be glad to hear that the swimsuit models, like everything else these days, are now available as an iPhone app. Azuki Systems, the Acton, MA, mobile developer Read more

Regulatory documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission yesterday indicate that HealthEdge Software of Burlington, MA, has collected $3.5 million in venture financing. Ray Desrochers, HealthEdge’s chief operating officer, said the funds represent the third tranche of a $13 million venture round announced last year from the company’s sole Read more